Fremont Cut
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Fremont Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that forms part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, linking Lake Union to the Lake Washington Ship Canal system and facilitating boat traffic between the lakes and Puget Sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fremont Cut canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2360352 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fremont Cut Context triple: [Lake Union, connectedBy, Fremont Cut]
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A.
Montlake Cut
Montlake Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that connects Lake Washington to Lake Union as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
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B.
Contra Costa Canal
The Contra Costa Canal is a man-made waterway in California that delivers irrigation and municipal water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to communities in Contra Costa County.
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C.
Niles Canyon
Niles Canyon is a scenic, historic gorge in the East Bay of California known for its winding route, railroad heritage, and picturesque drive between Fremont and Sunol.
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D.
Second Narrows
Second Narrows is a geographic strait or narrow water passage, known in Spanish as "Segunda Angostura," typically referring to a constricted section of a larger waterway.
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E.
Tehama-Colusa Canal
The Tehama-Colusa Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Sacramento Valley that delivers Central Valley Project water to agricultural lands and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fremont Cut Target entity description: Fremont Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that forms part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, linking Lake Union to the Lake Washington Ship Canal system and facilitating boat traffic between the lakes and Puget Sound.
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A.
Montlake Cut
Montlake Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that connects Lake Washington to Lake Union as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
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B.
Contra Costa Canal
The Contra Costa Canal is a man-made waterway in California that delivers irrigation and municipal water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to communities in Contra Costa County.
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C.
Niles Canyon
Niles Canyon is a scenic, historic gorge in the East Bay of California known for its winding route, railroad heritage, and picturesque drive between Fremont and Sunol.
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D.
Second Narrows
Second Narrows is a geographic strait or narrow water passage, known in Spanish as "Segunda Angostura," typically referring to a constricted section of a larger waterway.
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E.
Tehama-Colusa Canal
The Tehama-Colusa Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Sacramento Valley that delivers Central Valley Project water to agricultural lands and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| city | Seattle ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
Lake Union
ⓘ
Lake Washington Ship Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Washington Ship Canal system
Salmon Bay ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Puget Sound
ⓘ
surface form:
Puget Sound (via Lake Washington Ship Canal)
|
| constructionType | man-made canal ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Aurora Bridge
ⓘ
Fremont Bridge ⓘ |
| hasBridgeTypeOver | bascule bridge (Fremont Bridge) ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | straightened channel between Lake Union and Salmon Bay ⓘ |
| hasLockAccess |
Ballard Locks
ⓘ
surface form:
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (via Salmon Bay)
|
| hasNavigationRole | links freshwater lakes to saltwater Puget Sound ⓘ |
| hasUse |
barge traffic
ⓘ
commercial vessel traffic ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| isManMade | true ⓘ |
| isSegmentOf | east–west ship canal across Seattle ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedInNeighborhood |
Fremont, Seattle
ⓘ
Queen Anne, Seattle ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army Corps of Engineers
|
| partOf |
Lake Washington Ship Canal
ⓘ
Lake Washington Ship Canal ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Washington Ship Canal navigation channel
|
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| usedFor |
kayaking and rowing
ⓘ
motorboat passage ⓘ sailboat passage ⓘ |
| waterwayFunction |
facilitates boat traffic between Lake Union and Puget Sound
ⓘ
forms part of navigable route between Lake Washington and Puget Sound ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem |
Lake Washington Ship Canal
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Washington Ship Canal system
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Fremont Cut Description of subject: Fremont Cut is a man-made canal in Seattle that forms part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, linking Lake Union to the Lake Washington Ship Canal system and facilitating boat traffic between the lakes and Puget Sound.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.